published work
Conference Presentations
Journal Articles
(2023) “TikTok, Creation, and The Algorithm.” The Velvet Light Trap, no. 91.
(2022) “The Magical Work of Brand Futurity: The Mythmaking of Disney+.” Television & New Media.
(2022) “Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook Watch.” Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images vol. 2, no. 1.
(2020) “Confronting the Swarm: Streaming Platform Strategy in an Uncertain Age.” FLOW vol. 26, no. 5.
(2020) “BOOK REVIEW: Sad By Design: On Platform Nihilism by Geert Lovink.” New Media & Society vol. 22, no. 8.
(2018) “The Dominant is the Alternative: Fan Reactions to The Leftovers and Twin Peaks: The Return.” Transformative Works and Cultures no. 26, Spring 2018.
(2017) “Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading.” Red Feather Journal: An International Journal of Children in Popular Culture vol. 8, no. 2: 23-33.
Reports
(2022) “Super Apps,” edited by Jake Pitre, The Platform Lab.
Book Chapters
(2023) “Queer Aesthetics in the Streaming Age.” Television Studies in Queer Times, ed. F. Hollis Griffin. New York: Routledge, 161-176.
(2022) “‘He is a Murderer’: You, Fandom, and the Romanticized Male Killer.” Serial Killers in Contemporary Television: Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture, eds. Brett A. B. Robinson and Christine Daigle. New York: Routledge, 85-100.
(2020) “Queer Transformation, Fluid Fandom, and Contested Authorship.” Representation in Steven Universe, eds. Leah Richards and John Ziegler. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 19-44.
Conference Presentations
(2023) “Bad Platforms: Tubi and Lowbrow Taste in the Streaming Economy.” CSGSU Annual Graduate Student Conference: Bad Objects, University of Toronto, Canada.
(2022) “Platform Regulation’s Collective Imaginaries.” Reimagining Platforms Symposium, University of Edinburgh, UK.
(2022) “Twitch, Creator Culture, and the Political Economy of Cultural Production.” Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
(2021) “SKAM Austin and the Integrative Strategies of Facebook Watch.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference 2021.
(2020 - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19) “SKAM Austin and the Integrative Strategies of Facebook Watch.” Media Industries 2020, London, UK.
(2018) Roundtable Participant, “Queer Forms.” FLOW Conference 2018 (University of Texas at Austin), Austin, Texas.
(2018) “The Radical Arc of Queer Redemption in Steven Universe.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference 2018, Toronto, Ontario.
(2017) “Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading.” Midwest ACA/PCA Annual Conference 2017, St. Louis, Missouri.
(2017) “Shameless...but Sincere: Homage and Nostalgia in Stranger Things.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference 2017, Chicago, Illinois.
(2016) “Sympathy for the Devil: The Witch, Identity Politics & Narratives of Radicalization.” Film & History Annual Conference 2016, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
phd
Concordia University — Montreal, QC
PhD, Film & Moving Image Studies
Master’s
Carleton University — Ottawa, ON
Film Studies
Conducted under the supervision of Dr. Aubrey Anable at Carleton University, my thesis was about the political and queer potential of children’s entertainment, with the series Steven Universe as my object of study. The series deliberately attempts to subvert and remake youth media, not only by infusing it with queer characters but by creating a world outside normative structures of gender and sex. By analyzing the queer elements within the text as well as the show’s passionate, volatile fandom, I scrutinized the entangled relationship between queer texts and audiences in the digital age.
Master’s Thesis: I Think We Made Something Entirely New: Steven Universe, Tumblr Fandom and Queer Fluidity